Miss Diaz's 3rd Grade Classroom News
Miss Diaz’s 3rd Grade Classroom News The Week of October 3rd – October 7th
Email: [email protected] Twitter:@ClassWithMsDiaz Website: http://flossmoorhills.sd161.org/classes/21637/
Upcoming Events
10/10-10/12
Celebrations
• Due to the short week, Kaila will continue to be our star student next week. Great job for showing excellent character and hard work!!
No School
10/13 Parent Discipline Meeting 10/25
Intervention Convention
• There were no birthdays this week.
Our Learning Math: We reviewed all standards learned this quarter: time, elapsed time, creating accurate bar and pictographs, analyzing and solving word problems according to data in a graph, and perimeter (MD 1, 3, & 8). We will take the Unit 1 test this week and will be introduced to the concept of area. Shared Reading: We began a new close read, Murdoch’s Path, where students will begin building their knowledge on identifying the structure of a literary text and explaining how that structure builds upon itself as the story progresses (RL 3.5). We were first introduced to the story by reading aloud the text and identifying the central message. We will practice recounting the story and proving the central message with text evidence, in addition to practicing how to explain the progression of the story. For word work this week, we worked on forming compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions (L.3.1.H). Students learned what an independent clause is and how two independent clauses can be combined into one sentence with a comma and coordinating conjunction. Writing: We continued our memoir unit (W.3). We continued writing a memoir about a specific memory in our tradition. We also continued working through our drafting stage. Students learned about how to add voice into their writing to really help their readers visualize what is happening in the story. We also learned how to use sparkly words (descriptive language) by changing out our words with the use of a thesaurus. We will learn how to write a conclusion, in addition to how to edit next week. Social Studies: We reviewed landforms. Students learned about our different landforms and did an activity to identify landforms based on their attributes. We will begin science next week with learning about life cycles.
At Home Practice Reading log is due every Friday
Math 4 Today & quiz on math facts
Weekly Writing Due Wednesdays
Reminders Thank you to the parents who were able to attend parent visiting day. The students adored having you in our classroom. We are truly grateful Our Fall Party will be Friday, October 28th. Scholastic orders for this month are due October 28th. For parents that did not sign up for conferences, I will be sending out an online sign up with available times this week. Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder and agenda nightly.
Tic Tac Toe Due Dates: October 13th October 14th October 17th
Email: [email protected] Twitter:@ClassWithMsDiaz Website: http://flossmoorhills.sd161.org/classes/21637/
Upcoming Events
10/10-10/12
Celebrations
• Due to the short week, Kaila will continue to be our star student next week. Great job for showing excellent character and hard work!!
No School
10/13 Parent Discipline Meeting 10/25
Intervention Convention
• There were no birthdays this week.
Our Learning Math: We reviewed all standards learned this quarter: time, elapsed time, creating accurate bar and pictographs, analyzing and solving word problems according to data in a graph, and perimeter (MD 1, 3, & 8). We will take the Unit 1 test this week and will be introduced to the concept of area. Shared Reading: We began a new close read, Murdoch’s Path, where students will begin building their knowledge on identifying the structure of a literary text and explaining how that structure builds upon itself as the story progresses (RL 3.5). We were first introduced to the story by reading aloud the text and identifying the central message. We will practice recounting the story and proving the central message with text evidence, in addition to practicing how to explain the progression of the story. For word work this week, we worked on forming compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions (L.3.1.H). Students learned what an independent clause is and how two independent clauses can be combined into one sentence with a comma and coordinating conjunction. Writing: We continued our memoir unit (W.3). We continued writing a memoir about a specific memory in our tradition. We also continued working through our drafting stage. Students learned about how to add voice into their writing to really help their readers visualize what is happening in the story. We also learned how to use sparkly words (descriptive language) by changing out our words with the use of a thesaurus. We will learn how to write a conclusion, in addition to how to edit next week. Social Studies: We reviewed landforms. Students learned about our different landforms and did an activity to identify landforms based on their attributes. We will begin science next week with learning about life cycles.
At Home Practice Reading log is due every Friday
Math 4 Today & quiz on math facts
Weekly Writing Due Wednesdays
Reminders Thank you to the parents who were able to attend parent visiting day. The students adored having you in our classroom. We are truly grateful Our Fall Party will be Friday, October 28th. Scholastic orders for this month are due October 28th. For parents that did not sign up for conferences, I will be sending out an online sign up with available times this week. Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder and agenda nightly.
Tic Tac Toe Due Dates: October 13th October 14th October 17th
